Visualizing Research Impacts
Purpose/Program Overview
The Visualizing Research Impacts (VRI) competition is designed to encourage SIUE scholars to communicate and distribute to the public the results and impacts of their research and creative activities.
The intention of this internal funding competition is to expand and promote faculty research and creative activities, build a bridge from current faculty research and scholarship to opportunities for external research funding, and/or expand SIUE and broader public recognition of the results and impacts of faculty scholarship, research, and creative activities.
This program is a competition rather than an opportunity to fund the creation of products. Applicants must provide a visual or audio representation that demonstrates the results and impact of their scholarship, research, and/or creative activities.
The specific goal of this competition is to produce a valuable product that communicates the results and impacts of scholarship, research, or other creative activity to our broader SIUE community. Particularly emphasis and consideration will be given to projects that can be utilized to communicate the importance and impact of one’s research in pursuit of expanded research opportunities and external funds.
Definition of Research
Research and creative activities are broadly defined as all creative, critical, scholarly, and/or empirical activity that expands, clarifies, reorganizes, or develops knowledge or artistic perception of an area of study.
Eligibility
This competition is open to tenure-track faculty, non-tenure track faculty, and any faculty engaged in work with Graduate students and are currently involved in a research project or creative activity at SIUE.
All qualified entrants are encouraged to apply, including minorities, women, persons with disabilities, and protected veterans.
Award Description
One ($1,500) award is expected to be made.
Awardees will receive a monetary award to be used toward their scholarly research and creative activities at SIUE or professional development.
Terms and Conditions of Award
Awarded collaborative applications will split the monetary award amount evenly.
Winning entries and other competition entries may be featured in an issue of Research and Creative Activities magazine, on SIUE’s website, and elsewhere on campus to advance SIUE community knowledge of faculty and graduate student research, scholarship, and creative activities.
Timeline/Dates
All entries must be submitted by 4:30pm on the first business day of October.
Award letters will be sent out in November.
Application/Nomination Process
Applicants submit their full proposal by completing the Visualizing Research Impacts form in Kuali Build. You can access this form on the Graduate School's Forms page.
Applicants with disabilities desiring accommodations in the application process should contact the Office of Equal Opportunity and Access at (618) 650-2333.
Each entry consists of submitting a statement and a single production of research impact.
Possible productions of a visual research impact project could include an image in the form of a photo, drawing, painting, collage, or etc. Additional possible productions may include publicly engaging data visualizations, mapping diagrams, or audio/video productions or dance recordings of a research outcome.
- Scholarly Product Statement: Maximum of 200 words. Describe your research results and/or impacts that are represented by the product. Clearly connect your results/impacts to the product. Use language a lay audience can understand. PDF file type only. Name the file: VRI_ApplicantLastName_Statement.
- Scholarly Product: Originality: The product must be an original work of the scholar and/or collaborator.
File Name: Name the file in the following format: VRI_ApplicantLastName_ProjectTitle
Scholarly Product Guidelines
Images
File type: use a JPEG or PNG file type with minimal compression.
Resolution: Minimum of 300 dpi at a 9” x 12” image size. High resolution images are required so that they may be reproduced in print. Standard print resolution is 300 dpi, at the dimensions that will be used. (For example, a 2” x 3” 300 dpi image cannot be reproduced at 9” x 12” and still maintain quality, the image should be 9” x 12” or larger at 300 dpi to be reproduced at 9” x 12”.)
Audio
File type: MP3 or similar.
Length: Not to exceed five minutes.
Video
File type: MP4 or similar.
Length: Not to exceed five minutes.
Photo Release (if applicable): Photographers taking photos for use in university communications that feature people must obtain a signed photo release form from all subjects who are visibly recognizable in the photograph. Crowd scenes taken in a public location in which no single person is the dominant feature are exempt and do not require a release. The release form can be accessed at: https://www.siue.edu/marketing-and-communications/services/photography/photo-release.shtml
Copyright Certification: By entering the competition, the applicant certifies that the following statements are true:
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- The applicant hereby declares that they are the sole legal copyright owner of the submitted product.
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The applicant certifies that the submitted product is an original work and grants Southern Illinois University Edwardsville the permission to use and publishing rights for promotional purposes.
Selection Criteria
A panel of SIUE alumni will choose the winners based upon how well the product itself represents the research and creative activity results.
Applications will be assessed on two criteria:
- How informative and illuminating is the representation of the scholarly product and impact?
- How creative is the rendering of the scholarly product and impact?
Other Resources
Any questions concerning this program may be directed to the Graduate School at siueresearch@siue.edu.
Previous Awardees
See previous awardees in Research & Creative Activities.
